WORKING BORDER COLLIE SHEEP DOGS
The 10 Nel x Blu pups made it to five weeks today. They appear healthy. They are certainly eating a lot. The pups are yearning for more space, but need to spend another week in the warm puppy room before going out to the cold. It’s tricky having pups at this time of year. Cold is their enemy.
Trump’s excesses wear us down, in their outrageousness and number. We lose the ability to be shocked …but we shouldn’t. I am sickened by this post from Thanksgiving 2025. It should make our holiday turkey churn in our stomachs. Anyone who understands America should be shocked.
Donald Trump is beyond disgraceful. He is the embodiment of everything America should not stand for. Trump and his hoodlums are poisonous, toxic to a nation founded on equality where everyone (native or foreign born) may enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Futurist, scientist, science fiction writer, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, recorded this in 1964 for the BBC, a vision of the possible city of the future enabled by communication.
And he lived long enough to see it mostly come true!
There is a bowl of food in the middle of those 10 4-week-old puppies. When I put the food down, there is a surge. Some of them actually get into the dish.
At some point, things start to clear out and everyone, even the smallest, gets a chance to eat.
What is a happening in the Maine woods, home to Rachel Carson, is happening all over the United States.
The perp is not surprising, at all. It is the age we live in.
Woody Guthrie sang about it:
There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me
Sign was painted, said, “Private Property”
But on the back side, it didn’t say nothing
This land was made for you and me
So did Mavin Gaye in his classic, The Ecology.
Oh mercy, mercy me
Ah things ain’t what they used to be
What about this overcrowded land?
How much more abuse from man can she stand?
Question: What eats 10 cups of kibble, 16 jumbo eggs and 1.5 kg of turkey a day?
Answer: A nursing female feeding 10 3-week-old pups.
The leaves have gone but the skies are bright in late October.
Before turning blue-grey in November
I continue to be shocked by the depth and breadth of the fear of and submission to this president, not just here in the USA, but around the world. He is a narcissistic, impulsive bully.
Offering the would-be ‘king’ a crown is an act of pure sycophancy so transparent as to be risible …except that the act of ingratiation only urges the bully on.
..and is THIS any surprise?
Every day the absurdity of the headlines gets more numbing …but of course, that is the intention.
Bernadette Cochrane chose to feature my Lotti along with luminaries Clwyd Bob and Hendre Sam on her marketing material. Lotti is front and center.
Coffee prices have gone up over 50% in the last 6 months. About half of that increase is due to volatile weather conditions, viz. global climate change, and increasing global demand.
The other half is due to tariffs of 50% on coffee beans from Brazil and elsewhere …but of course, tariffs are not tax according to our MAGAt leaders, they are not paid by Americans. WRONG!!! As the tariffs work their way though the supply chain, prices could climb even further.
The wealthy got tax breaks. The rest of us got tariffs. For this, go thank a MAGAt and the president and representatives they elected.
I went to reorder coffee from my favorite roaster here in Vermont. A bag of Costa Rican dark that cost $13.00 6 months ago, now costs $19.50. That is a 50% increase!
The use of tariffs as cudgel to get countries to bend to a would-be dictator’s whim is unprecedented …and illegal. In any normal times, the Congress and Supreme Court would have their say. They are both ‘owned‘ –controlled– by Donald Trump now. So, when you grimace at the price of coffee, go thank a MAGAt. And then listen to them try to tell you Trump is a smart businessman who knows what he is doing, plays 4D chess, or some other bullshit line, because they cannot admit the truth: they are as irresponsible as the corrupt bully they elected president.